PepsiCo will make its flagship carbonated drink Pepsi less sweet and more fizzy, changing its formulation for the first time in India, reported the Economic Times.

The move will place Pepsi at par with rival brands Coke and ThumsUp, which have stayed less sweet in comparison, the report said. The rework also comes at a pivotal summer quarter (April-June), which accounts for more than half of the packaged beverage industry's annual sales of Rs 28,000 crore in India.

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) has acquired the balance 50 per cent equity stake in HPCL Shapoorji Energy Private Limited (HSEPL) from SP Ports Private limited company.

Post acquisition, HPCL's stake in HSEPL gets enhanced to 100 per cent, making HSEPL a wholly-owned subsidiary of HPCL.

Amid a massive spike in the number of COVID-19 cases in the country, the Health Ministry in a press conference on Tuesday (March 30), said that there is a need to exponentially increase tests in states, Union Territories that are reporting a rise in caseload. The ministry also said that the COVID-19 situation going from bad to worse recently, it is a huge cause for worry.

The deadline to link your PAN to your Aadhaar ends on March 31 (Wednesday). The Central government had extended the deadline to link PAN Card with Aadhaar to March 31, 2021, from the previous deadline of June 30, 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, if the PAN is not linked with the Aadhaar number by March 31, 2021, then the PAN will become inoperative from April 1, 2021.

The country’s largest private sector lender, HDFC Bank, on Tuesday said some of its customers are facing intermittent issues while accessing net banking and mobile banking facilities.

Customers facing outages took to social media to vent out their frustration.

Full-service carrier Vistara has decided to roll back the pay cut, implemented by the airline last year, for certain categories of employees from April while the reduced salaries will continue for the management-level executives, including the CEO, according to an e-mail to the airline staff.

The Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines joint venture airline had in June 2020 announced a reduction in salary of nearly 40 per cent of the total workforce till December 31 to deal with low cash flow amid weak passenger demand in the wake of the pandemic.

Tata Power on Tuesday said it has bagged an order to develop 60 MW (mega watt) solar project for Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam.

The company has received a letter of award from Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited (GUVNL) on March 26, 2021, to develop a 60 MW solar project in the state of Gujarat, Tata Power said in a regulatory filing.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Tuesday said Building on Belief will be its new brand statement to express its relationship with customers and its target of transformation-led growth in a decade. Experience Certainty was the company’s brand statement before.

TCS said the new brand statement reflects the company’s belief that it, along with its customers, can harness collective knowledge to innovate.

As COVID-19 cases continue to surge in Maharastra despite the restrictions imposed by the government, the administration in Nagpur has taken another step to discourage people from spending more time in crowded markets. Now an hourly ticket will have to be bought by people to visit crowded markets.

The price of the ticket has been kept at Rs 5.

The overall number of global Covid-19 cases has surpassed 127.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.79 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Tuesday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 127,528,304 and 2,790,109, respectively.

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